Five years ago I pointed out nearly all NFT's were going to break when the startup who minted them goes bust, causing people to get *extremely* mad at me until everyone concluded that I was correct.

Roger BW 😷

@jonty "That's a problem for the next guy who has this job, after I take the money and run."

gwire

@jonty if there's one thing you can trust, it's that dead companies will continue to honour their assurances.

Gary :party_porg:

@jonty I had the same argument with the editor of a prominent online gaming magazine who was convinced they were the Next Big Thing

twigs :anarchy_punk_nonbinary:

@jonty took a page from religions that promise great things in a time and place not reachable nor actionable by mgmt

James

@jonty All investors will have their assets gracefully transitioned to a unique DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN address.

To be fair to them, this does feel like art.
Even Banksy only managed one half-shredded piece.

Nicro

@jonty Reminds me of the companies, that promise to preserve your body/head until science figures out how to thaw living people. Those went the same way.

David Cantrell 🏏

@Primavera @jonty eternal salvation or triple your money back!

twigs :anarchy_punk_nonbinary:

@DrHyde @jonty basically, yeah

Elias Mårtenson

@WiteWulf @jonty is that nft multiplayer game still a thing?

Decentraland? Was that it?

Then there was that one that had beta testing sessions with thousands of simultaneous players (which is not very hard when none of them can actually interact with eachother)

My camera shoots fascists

@jonty

I've noticed how a lot of photographers quietly removed those hokey .eth appendages from their screen names on various platforms. Huh. Wonder why.

opalfroot

@jonty nobody could have foreseen this.